Krauthammer's Take
By: NRO Staff
The Corner
From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.
On the Sestak and Romanoff affairs:
<<< In the Romanoff case, the White House is trying to stay just this side of the legal line by using the word "dangling" rather than "offering."
And look, the White House says there wasn't a quid pro quo, so that's why it's sort of kosher. But: Gibbs admitted what the quo was … [when] he said the president has an interest in clearing the field. So clearly the objective was getting him out of the race. That's the quo. And the quid was the three jobs. . . .
This is pretty on-the-line. In the Sestak case, I think there’s less evidence of bribery, but the real issue there is veracity and lying. The story from the White House [and the] story from Sestak don't stack up.
The White House said, in the statement from the White House lawyer, that there were inquiries made over the months of June and July. Sestak has said there was one call, under a minute. Well, that doesn't match.
So there are lies here, there’s something being covered up. What were the other offers? Who made them?
So I think it‘s two different cases but in each of them it looks real bad. ... In journalism, one instance is an anecdote, three is a trend, [and] here we are hovering in the middle at two. >>>
On Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wanting first to secure the border and President Obama wanting first comprehensive immigration reform:
<<< There is something very odd about this. The executive is required under the constitution to execute the laws. We have laws about immigration. The government, by its own acknowledgment, has failed 10 million times to enforce it. (Since there are that many illegals in the United States.)
And now it says: We'll only enforce it if we get comprehensive reform, i.e., we are not going to enforce existing law until we get a change in the law or new law.
[But] you can't hold an existing law hostage -- [hold up] enforcement of it -- to a legislative agenda you have. You have to enforce the law.
I do not understand how they can say this with a straight face in a constitutional democracy. You have to enforce the law. >>>
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